Your Party Scotland leadership declares party is ‘over’ after committee’s mass resignation

The leadership of Your Party Scotland (YPS) has resigned en masse, citing the consistent contempt shown towards members and the organisation north of the border.

All 12 members of the Interim Scottish Executive Committee have unanimously left their roles and pledged to help form a new party.

Your Party’s Interim Scottish Executive Committee (ISEC) was made up of volunteers who have overseen the running of the party – including the party’s Founding Conference in Dundee earlier this year – since December 2025.

But all 12 of the remaining members of the group have now resigned their posts, with their concerns about a dismissive attitude from the party’s UK leadership towards Scotland continuing to be ignored. Niall Christie, the sole Scotland rep on Your Party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), has also resigned with immediate effect.

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The decision comes after significant work from ISEC to fulfil the decisions taken by members in Dundee, including ensuring Your Party Scotland had candidates for the upcoming Holyrood elections. Attempts to run internal elections to replace the interim group with a democratically-selected SEC were also blocked by those in control of the party.

Your Party Scotland feeling ignored

Decisions taken at the Your Party CEC – now solely controlled by those aligned to the Jeremy Corbyn-led The Many faction – also underline the disdain shown towards Your Party Scotland and its members.

Proposals tabled by Scotland’s one CEC rep – compared to the 16 allocated to English regions – have repeatedly been ignored by the party’s chair. Your Party’s leadership has also ignored repeated requests for support and discussions.

At a CEC meeting held yesterday, a proposal to provide support to YPS to hold meetings and contact its members – which they have been unable to do since the party’s creation last year – was not heard, nor was a motion affirming the party’s commitment to Scottish autonomy and respecting decisions taken in Scotland.

A proposal to remove thousands of party members due to their membership and affiliation with other socialist organisations – which contradicts the rules of Your Party Scotland – also passed at Sunday’s CEC meeting.

As a result, the ISEC has now released a statement outlining its decision, as well as its belief that the party – which has been haemorrhaging members in Scotland in recent weeks – has now collapsed.

However, the ISEC members – made up of former MSPs and prominent left-wing figures, as well as many of whom have never been involved in politics before – also underlined the need for a new party on the left in Scotland and their intention to continue working towards this.

In a statement, the ISEC said:

As a result of this consistent denial of autonomy for Scotland, and a willingness by the UK leadership to sideline an entire nation by withholding funding and mailing lists and refusing to engage, we have, after careful thought and consideration, taken the collective decision to resign our positions on ISEC, having found ourselves completely blocked when we attempted to carry out the clear mandate set for us by members from across Scotland.

No serious attempt to unite the left can be done through purges of socialists or by disregarding entire nations and their representatives. It is clear that these are fatal blows to the Your Party project from which it cannot recover.

Despite this generational fumble of the left in Britain, the need for a new party on the left in Scotland couldn’t be more urgent, and it is our clear intention to continue working towards this. We call on others who share our vision to join us in doing so over the coming weeks and months, as the reality of a rising far-right and its representatives joining our national parliament set in.

Simply put, the best time for change has passed, but the next best time is now. In Scotland, we intend to continue building that change, but to do so outwith the constraints of the deeply flawed and dying Your Party.

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The decision comes after a meeting of nearly 200 Your Party Scotland members on 12 April, which showed overwhelming support for working towards a new left project in Scotland.

Scotland representative on Your Party CEC Christie said:

It has become clear the party has run out of road. This is in no small part down to the consistent disrespect shown to Scotland and Scottish members, with decisions about us being made without our input, and on our behalf.

I’ll be continuing the essential work needed to build the party we were all promised in summer 2025, but I will be doing so outside of Your Party. With an election on the horizon, it is time to take stock of the political landscape in Scotland and work to bring the left in Scotland together – truly – and move towards something new in the not-too-distant future.

My own main takeaway having been involved in Your Party is that whatever comes next must be built in Scotland, by Scotland, for Scotland. Anything else is doomed to fail.

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